Smithfield Poultry Market
The original poultry market by Horace Jones was opened in 1875 but destroyed by fire in 1958. Our page for that fire has an image of the original building. The new building has a concrete elliptic...
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Sloane Court East V1 bomb
The V1 bomb arrived at 7.47 on a Monday morning, landing at the top end of Sloane Court East destroying many buildings and many lives. The extent of the physical damage can easily be seen by lookin...
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Paralympic Games - 2012
Officially, the Fourteenth Summer Paralympic Games. A major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities, governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) that took place ...
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Diss Street, Vaughan Estate - foundation
We are delighted that the Terraces Tenements and Tower Blocks project researched the Housing Committee minutes and found this photograph. The Housing Committee are probably the people at the back ...
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fire at 423 Hackney Road 1902
The East London Advertiser, 22 December 2008, published an article on this tragedy where 7 lives were lost, which we summarise here. Alice Denman, 27, and her 6 children lived in the upper floors ...
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Epsom and Ewell Golden Jubilee
A local government district with borough status in Surrey, covering the towns of Epsom and Ewell. The borough was formed as an urban district in 1894, and was known as Epsom until 1934. It was made...
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Battle of Abukir
Part of the Napoleonic Wars. The British fought the French at Abu Qir in Egypt and achieved a tactical victory. Britain wanted to land troops on the beach and the French would prefer they stayed ...
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Christ Church Spitalfields - alterations
Wikipedia says the works were done in 1850 but the church's own website confirms the date in the plaque and seems to say that all the Victorian alterations were undone ("a restoration of the church...
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Christ Church Spitalfields - fire
British History On-line puts the blame squarely on the "negligence of the steeple-keeper". There you can see the exact cost of the repairs to each element destroyed by the fire and the name of the ...
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Burns' Day Storm
Because this storm hit during the day-time it caused more human casualties than the Great Storm of 1987. Then the death toll was 22, compared with 47 on Burns' Day. Under other names (e.g. Daria) t...
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